JERUSALEM, Feb 2 — An Israeli cabinet meeting today during which officials said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would seek approval to annex parts of the occupied West Bank has been scrapped, his office said. After US President Donald Trump unveiled his controversial peace plan on Tuesday,...
Palestinian demonstrators burn the Israeli and US flags during a protest against a US-brokered Middle East peace plan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 1, 2020. — AFP pic
Later unnamed Israeli officials said Netanyahu would convene a cabinet meeting today to discuss that issue and seek approval to annex settlements and territory that would become part of Israel under the plan. Trump’s proposal gives the Jewish state a US green light to annex key parts of the West Bank, including in the strategic Jordan Valley.
The Israeli army said yesterday that Palestinians in Gaza fired an unspecified “projectile” into Israel at night, the latest in a series of rocket and mortar fire since Wednesday, a day after Trump unveiled his plan.Israeli warplanes hit Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas yesterday morning after several rounds of cross-border fire by Palestinian militants Friday.
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